Donald Driver: I’d come back if the Packers asked

Summary of 5 articles · Updated Jun 17, 2013

Donald Driver has retired from the Packers. After 14 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, wide receiver Donald Driver announced his retirement on Feb. 6. Wide receiver Donald Driver, who retired earlier this offseason rather than suit up for a team other t… (more)han the Green Bay Packers, said he’d be open to returning to play for the Packers during the season if they came calling. Retired Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver made some headlines over the weekend by telling reporters that he would be in shape and ready to resume his career should the team reach out to him this season. It’s extremely unlikely that the 38-year-old Driver would get a call from the Packers after a 2012 season in which he caught just eight passes. Kevin Dorsey and Charles Johnson, two rookie receivers drafted by the Packers in the seventh round of the 2013 draft to help replace Driver, played in Sunday's softball game. “I think the thing is, if you have the itch to continue to play, then it doesn’t matter who you play for, because that’s what you want to do,” Driver said at a press conference before his sixth annual charity softball game, according to Fox Sports Wisconsin.